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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2012
Oron Michael, San Jose, CA (US);
Robin John Jigour, San Jose, CA (US);
Anil Gupta, Saratoga, CA (US);
Oron Michael, San Jose, CA (US);
Robin John Jigour, San Jose, CA (US);
Anil Gupta, Saratoga, CA (US);
WINBOND ELECTRONICS CORPORATION, Taichung, TW;
Abstract
Certain functions relating to creation and use of a look-up table for bad block mapping may be implemented 'on chip' in the memory device itself, that is on the same die in an additional circuit, or even within the command and control logic of the memory device, so as to reduce the overhead. Moreover, the on-chip implementation of the look-up table may be tightly integrated with other functions of the command and control logic to enable powerful new commands for NAND flash memory, such as a continuous read command and variations thereof.